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Check out these new table games and gear available now for your casino floor! Featuring Down and Dirty Poker by INAG and the i-Table by Shuffle Master.

Check out the latest news and announcements from the gaming industry's top movers and shakers! Featuring a BMM agreement with MPI, a partnership between Bally Technologies and Cisco Systems, teamwork between Aristocrat and Konami, changes at Stratosphere, four new members and an economic impact study for AGEM, a Rainmaker installation at Foxwoods, and more.

Here’s the “classic” cheating situation. Right after the roulette dealer “waves off” over the layout, a player near the top of the table closest to the wheel head starts, making a series of one-chip bets. A second player, sitting at the end of the layout, stands and stares at the wheel head, watches the descent of the white ball, and waits for it to come to rest in the a number on the crown.

Take a look at the new community and progressive slots from December 2008: AC Coin & Slots's Carousel of Cash, IGT's Wheel of Fortune Super Spin Video Slots Five-Station and WMS' Money to Burn.

Take a peek at the newest Class II slot machine titles. Wendell & Sparks is Cadillac Jack’s newest video reel, conjuring up intense game play in a fanciful world of wizards, dragons, and crystal balls. Play ball with Multimedia Games' Baseball Diamonds. Reel Winners™ is a 5-reel, 20-line stepper from Bally.

Check out these new Class III slot titles from major manufacturers! Featuring Aristocrat's Lucky 88™, Atronic's Xanadu 9 Dragons™, IGT's Kitty Glitter™, Power Strike™ by Bally, Purple Moon™ by Ainsworth, Slotto® Big Cash Sweepstakes™, Konami's Secrets of Egypt™, and Cadillac Jack's Gecko's Gone Wild™.

Outside the entrance of the newly expanded Tulalip Casino Resort & Spa, a 20-foot bronze statue of a Tulalip spear-fisherman proudly greets guests while, inside the property, a Tulalip tribal member concentrates on keeping that spear-fisherman’s traditions alive. He works inside one of the property’s newest and most stylish restaurants, Blackfish, preparing a succulent fresh seafood dish using the traditional Tulalip tribal techniques his forefathers have been using for centuries.

Nothing made bigger news at the 2008 Global Gaming Expo than the road-to-Damascus moment evidently experienced by Gary Loveman. As CEO of Harrah’s Entertainment, he engineered a buyout of Caesars Entertainment and then an LBO by private-equity funds Texas Pacific Group and Apollo Management. Those moves left Harrah’s wobbling under $27 billion in debt just as credit markets tightened and consumer spending went south.

On Sept. 25, 2008, President Bush signed into law the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA). This will amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and directly overturn several decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in its interpretation of that landmark law. The ADAAA sends an unmistakable message to the courts that the concept of disability is to be more broadly, rather than narrowly, construed.

A phony advertisement for meetings appears with the tag line, “Meetings—the Practical Alternative to Work.” Sadly, this type of negativity toward meetings is common and well deserved. It has been reported that on an average day in the United States, more than 17 million meetings will be called to order. In a survey conducted by Microsoft, American employees said they average 5.6 hours in meetings each week; 69 percent felt that those meetings were unproductive.